Improvement in advertising-frames



B- J- MORRBLL. Advetising Frames.

Patented Dec. 23.18192I INVBNTOR WITNESSBS WJ Qraz,

T'I'ORNBYS.

N.PETERS, PR01 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMORY J. MORRELL, OF PETROLIA, ONTARIO, CANADA'.

.IMPROVEMENT IN ADVERTISING-FRAMES.

Specicatioh forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,934, dated December 23, 1879; application filed July 21, 1879.

.To au whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, EMORY J. MORRELL, of Petrolia, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, have invented a new and Improved Business-Directory, of which the following is a specication.

Figure 1 is a plan of the device. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same on line m x, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional elevation.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to provide a device for displaying business-cards and the like on the platforms of city railroad-depots y and other places of public resort.

boxes, the faces of which are each of them divided by vertical strips into three sections,

which are provided with glass fronts,through which may be seen the business-cards, &c., that are placed within. Over each column or section will be placed the name of the business represented by the cards below.

ln the drawings, A represents the center post or standard, provided with feet a and spindle b. B are 'the collars clamped around the standard, and having bolted or otherwise secured to them the arms C. D are the braces that project upward from the lower t0 support the upper arms. c are the lugs on the ends of the arms, through which pass the screws or bolts that hold the boxes E. The face of each box E is divided into three vertical sectionshor columns by the vertical strips d', between which are fitted the sliding glazed frames F, that have elastic packing about their edges, that they may nt so closely as to prevent the en trance of rain. The business-cards, Sto., r11/,to be displayed, are set one above another against and facing the glassin the sashes, and are held in position by elastic bands that are secured to the back of the sash.

The sashes holding the glass and cards have wire loops f fastened in their tops, by which they can be at any time drawn upward ont of the boxes for the purpose' of changing the cards.

The caps G of the boxes may be screwed on; but preferably they are hinged to the boxes, so that they may be swung back toward the center of the device.

The lamps H are suspended from the ends of the yokes I, that surmount the device in such a position as to throw their light well upon the fronts of the device. The standard is preferably a tubular casting, and the collars and arms and frames are also preferably of cast-iron, and all the parts are secured together in a substantial manner.

The spaces between the boxes may be filled with wire-netting h', as shown.

Having thus full)r described my invention, I

EMORY JAMES MORRELL.

Witnesses:

M. A. B. KNOX, JOHN A. MOTT. 

